Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

I do the gardening.

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

I found that most people who buy restaurants should never have done it, because they don't understand money.

A Breath of love can take you all the way to infinity

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.